Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday
The middle of a month seems less special nowadays. We’ve got that first of the month thing going with the Doom Charts and we start longing for the day the new edition goes online. To see what my fellow contributors have been listening to and what we might have missed. Cause even though we listen to so many amazing releases there are always a few that slip through the cracks. And then there are those that always seem to slip through the cracks. For whatever reason. The horror, the horror! So, on the Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday we try to put a band-aid on that ever growing crack and stop all that magic just leaking away. And yes, we know, we know, the albums and bands deserve more. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday. And its burns hot like molten lava!
Into Orbit – Kinesis
Post rock and so much more! Yes, we are digging the first singles from the new Kinesis album by New Zealand duo Into Orbit. A dynamic offering of guitar and drums whose immersive, genre-defying sound contains aspects of experimental rock, metal, prog, doom, ambience & drone. Check out Horus for instance. The seven minute prog/doom-metal epic opens with eerie guitar dissonance before erupting into a storm of frenzied drums and furious riffing and concluding with a hypnotic, loop-driven build to a cataclysmic end. And that’s the only end we could think off when we are slowly pushed up hill towards the edge of a cliff… Push us over! Make us fly!
Six Steps Above The Earth – Step 4
More minimalistic droning doom comes from Thessaloniki, Greece. Six Steps Above The Earth is another duo man project that implores the help from others from time to time. The project is already on Step 4 and has of course been through the other steps as well. It’s heavy monotone doom gaze and it’s not for the lighthearted. There is meaning to the slow instrumental doomy madness and if you don’t step on board; you will surely loose your mind.
Electricjezus – Cmex
Guess what, we have another duo on our hands! Straight from the heart of Moscow comes Electricjezus and it’s down tuned lo-fi doom sludge. We already mentioned their Грязь поколений release back in 2013 and then kind of lost track of them. Luckily they found us and put forth their new Cmex release. Muddy sludge, sludgy mud and some crusty demonic offerings. Another release that is surely meant for deep dark dungeons and twisted minds!
Heavy Traffic – Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
Remember Plastic Surgery? Written about by Madman Tony Maim? Well... We slowly move, slowly, very slowly move away from the drone and the doom. We approach Heavy Traffic and their Garage: Bad Dream Adventure release with arms outstretched. This is more in league psychedelic doom and lo-fi punky noise influences. Even though there are once again a few shoegaze moments; there is no way you shall be hypnotized this time around. No, this is freak out stuff, this is maddening on a very different level. You shall go wild! Berserk even!
Sküma – Vol. [0]
Berserk and wild you shall go as well when you hear Sküma and their Vol. [0] release! If the former mention already stepped away from the droning doom this moves completely out of its way. The Greek five-piece gives us heavy grungy hardrock and stoner trucking. Metal moments pop up here and there and poppy influences grab you by the head and scream in your face. And on those moments when sun dried guitar tones are thrown into the mix we can hear something blossoming that not only sounds promising; but sounds deliciously cool! Listen to the P4nda track for instance; dang!